Identifier: byzantineromanes02jackuoft (find matches)
Title: Byzantine and Romanesque architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Byzantine Architecture, Romanesque
Publisher: Cambridge, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Fig. 145. into a trefoil, of which the planes are cleverly managed.Fig. 146 shows a very similar capital from Ernulf andConrads crypt at Canterbury. These two capitals at Winchester being carved on allfour sides and prepared for slender colonnettes about6^ inches in diameter, may very likely have belonged to theoriginal cloister of the abbey, though their style is much Sym-bolism insculpture 248 ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD (ch. xxviii later than that of Walkelyns arches which opened fromthe cloister to the chapter-house \ The centaur shooting an arrow into the monstersmouth is said to be symbolical. One explanation is thatit means the Harrowing of Hell. Sagittarius is anemblem of Christ and the dragons mouth is Hell-mouth.
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CANTERBURY Fig. 146. In the Livre des Creatures of Philip de Taun, writtenin the r2th century, Sagittarius drawing his bow is said to ^ These carvings were discovered when the stones were drawn out toafford bond for my new buttresses in 1912. Wykehams perpendicular facingof this wall is no doubt full of similar relics of the work of his predecessors.According to tradition the cloisters were destroyed in Queen Elizabeths time:if so Wykeham may have pulled down the Norman cloister and built a newone, which was in its turn destroyed in the i6th century. Phxte CLXI Ji % 1 S^S^SSB^^^^^i^-

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